Back Door Rooster Man
I never get tired of watching the antics of Brown Rooster from the back door. When it’s not raining I usually put him outside of the...
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- Dec 1, 2013
Green Eggs & Ham
Now that it’s getting dark so early and the number of daylight hours is almost at its annual low, the ladies’ egg production has dropped...
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- Nov 2, 2013
Coq au Vin
Last weekend we took a big step in our journey toward self-sufficiency at 5R Farm. You may recall from The Rooster Dilemma post that...
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stacy
- Oct 24, 2013
Guess What…?
It’s that time of year when many chickens go through the annual process of molting and grow a new set of feathers. It’s easy to tell when...
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stacy
- Oct 15, 2013
King of the Castle
It’s been several months since I removed the roosters from the chicken flock, and I’ve been juggling rooster housing ever since. Things...
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stacy
- Sep 5, 2013
Good Girl, Grace!
There’s exciting news today at 5R Farm. Grace has joined the ranks of the laying hens, and even more exciting is that she’s a member of...
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stacy
- Aug 17, 2013
Where’s Brown Rooster?
I felt the worst had happened to Brown Rooster. For those of you that haven’t been introduced to Brown Rooster yet, he is one of the two...
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stacy
- Jul 22, 2013
The Rooster Dilemma
It’s been three months since we spontaneously agreed to provide a home for six chicks that were hatched out in a friend’s grade school...
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stacy
- Jun 29, 2013
Bachelor Pad #2
As much as I love my roosters, and as much as they love the ladies, it was time to move Reuben and Ramon into their own bachelor pad....
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stacy
- Jun 19, 2013
Goodbye Sweet Sussex
I’ve known for a couple of months that one of our four Speckled Sussex hens was not doing well, and she finally left us this week. I’m...
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stacy
- May 25, 2013
The Broody Girls
Now that we’ve gotten Millie through her broody phase by letting her hatch out a few chicks, we’ve got a couple more broody girls at the...
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stacy
- May 1, 2013
Chicken Farm in the Sky
That’s where my little Sweet Pea is now. She left us this evening after a few weeks of us trying our best to nurse her back to health. I...
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stacy
- Apr 19, 2013
Poor Little Sweet Pea
I had thought about calling this post “Crazy Chicken Lady” because I’m about to divulge the lengths I will go to for one of my favorite...
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stacy
- Mar 21, 2013
Momma Millie
I have exciting news to report – our very own Millie hatched out some baby chicks! You may recall I had written about Millie wanting to...
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stacy
- Mar 6, 2013
Rooster Love
I’ve learned a lot about rooster love in the last year, a bit too much perhaps, and one thing I can say is that love hurts! We currently...
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stacy
- Feb 9, 2013
R.I.P. Henry
We lost one of the good ones this week. Henry was the pint-sized ambassador of 5R Farm. He was one of our two banty roosters, the...
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stacy
- Feb 2, 2013
So Long, Ringo
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally decided to rehome one of our roosters – Ringo, our silver gray dorking. Now that the roosters...
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stacy
- Jan 19, 2013
Winter Chickens at 5R Farm
We’ve had several weeks of freezing temperatures in the mornings at 5R Farm this winter. When I look out the window in the morning and...
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stacy
- Dec 8, 2012
The Boys of 5R Farm, Part II
I introduced you to Rooster Cogburn (aka Reuben) and Ramon, the two highest ranking roosters in our flock, in the previous Boys of 5R...
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- Nov 16, 2012
The Boys of 5R Farm
I had to give up my first rooster two and a half years ago when our backyard chicken Ramona turned into Ramon, and ever since then I...
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